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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) For his school chorus.
(b) A local nightclub.
(c) Church.
(d) In his school orchestra.

2. Why does Jayjones think black people have been falsely imprisoned?
(a) They are not given fair trials because the system is too overloaded.
(b) They can't afford good lawyers.
(c) He does not know why.
(d) Racism.

3. What does Sly convince Tash to do?
(a) Beat up a cop.
(b) Borrow some money and bet on some horses.
(c) Go to an illegal gambling joint.
(d) Take Sly and a friend to Randall's home.

4. What do the three girls vow to do?
(a) Hide D.
(b) Stay friends forever.
(c) Write D every day.
(d) Go to speak on Flo's behalf.

5. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?
(a) He gets in spats with the police.
(b) He is easily led to crime.
(c) He loses his friends through it.
(d) He falls in love with the wrong men.

6. How is Sly whenever Tash meets him?
(a) Alone and seemingly friendless.
(b) Acts like a Queen.
(c) Gushy.
(d) Cold and aloof.

7. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.
(b) It enlivened everyone.
(c) It made ladies cry.
(d) She does not mention Tash's music.

8. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They should leave the United States.
(b) They are hunted.
(c) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(d) They should hunt just as they are hunted.

9. What is it about the East Side train that makes the narrator and Neeka's family uneasy?
(a) The train is full of white people.
(b) The train is swaying and making them a little seasick.
(c) Not knowing exactly where they are supposed to get off.
(d) The tracks are really rough.

10. Who is Tash?
(a) Emmett's older brother who is in jail.
(b) Emmett's father.
(c) A black man shot for no reason in a white neighborhood.
(d) A black minister who is too white.

11. What does D ask the narrator and Neeka one Friday night?
(a) If D can come over for dinner.
(b) If they would like to roam with her.
(c) Why Neeka's mother looks down on her.
(d) If Tash was home yet.

12. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?
(a) She is as tall as Wilt Chamberlain.
(b) She is taller than her mother or father.
(c) She is as tall as her older brother.
(d) She is taller than D or Neeka.

13. What does Neeka's group share?
(a) Anger towards Tash for getting in there.
(b) Pictures.
(c) A large, picnic-style lunch.
(d) The prison food.

14. Where does D tell them they are going?
(a) D decides they should just stay in after dinner.
(b) She does not tell them.
(c) No where.
(d) Back to her house after dinner.

15. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His depressed shuffling.
(b) His stutter.
(c) Any weight.
(d) His swagger or energy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tash refer to himself?

2. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?

3. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?

4. What do Sly and his friend testify?

5. Where does Tash spend a few weeks?

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